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From the Japan Times, a review of Tokyo National Museum's exhibit on the history of ancient ceramics and their discovery in Japan.

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• Emperor's Remark Pours Fuel on Ethnic Hot Potato - From the Japan Times, during a news conference to mark news and media his 68th birthday, the Emperor drew the public\\'s attention to news and media a historical document that shows one of his eighth-century ancestors news and media was born to a descendant of immigrants from the Korean news and media Peninsula. In
• Disgraced Archaeologist Denies Other Findings Were Also Faked - From the Japan Times, Shinichi Fujimura, an archaeologist asia who admitted falsifying two findings of Paleolithic stone asia tools in northern Japan, has denied rumors that asia more dig finds he was involved in were asia also fakes.
• Filming Reveals Gold Leaf Use at Kitora tomb - From the Japan Times, gold leaf was used japan in drawing Japan\\'s oldest existing astronomical charts covering japan the ceiling of an ancient tomb in the japan village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture.
• Ancient Artwork May be Earliest Zodiac Mural - From the Japan Times, researchers have found what news and media they believe is a tiger-headed, human figure on news and media the eastern wall of Nara Prefecture's Kitora tomb.
• Archaeologist Exposed as Fraud - Shinichi Fujimura, famed for finding ancient artefacts, admits planting them news and media after being caught red-handed by a national newspaper. BBC News.
• Urn Reveals Oldest Image of Whaling - From the Japan Times, researchers have discovered what news and media news and media they believe to be Japan\\'s oldest depiction of news and media news and media whaling, on an urn dating from around 100 news and media news and media B.C.E., according to officials with the Nagasaki Board news and media news and media of Education.
• Faked Digs Put Archaeologists on Defensive - From the Japan Times, shock waves ran through news and media asia Japan in November after it was revealed that news and media asia revered amateur archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura had planted findings news and media asia of early Paleolithic relics at two of his news and media asia dig sites.
• Scholars Devise Method to Confirm Date of Stone Tools - From the Japan Times, Nagatomo said he hopes japan the method will help verify the authenticity of japan controversial Paleolithic stone tools discovered in northeastern Japan.
• Boy Unearths Rare Stoneware Fragment - The Japan Times, an 11-year-old boy unearthed a japan fragment of japan rare fifth century C.E. Sue Ware japan stoneware in Kamigori, Hyogo japan Prefecture.
• Further Doubts Dug up on Archaeologist's 'Finds' - From the Japan Times, sources said that Shinichi asia Fujimura, 50, former deputy chief of the Tohoku asia Paleolithic Institute, discovered archaeologically important stone implements during asia the excavation, but only when he was alone asia at the site.
• Pottery Dreams Across 10,000 Years - From the Japan Times, a review of Tokyo japan National Museum\\'s exhibit on the history of ancient japan ceramics and their discovery in Japan.
• Nara Mound Confirmed as Oldest of its Kind - From the Japan Times, tests on a wooden asia board found asia in a trench surrounding Katsuyama Mound asia at Makimuku in the asia town of Sakurai show asia it was from a tree felled asia in the asia year 199 C.E., supporting the hypothesis that a asia asia legendary ancient kingdom governed by the

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